This is the best news I've heard in a long time. deadline.com/2025/11/star...

Oblivious Scuzzy. Thank you.

I owe the Monmouth County library 10¢. I am deeply embarrassed.

Too many of these Epstein emails end "Signed, Epstein's Mother"

No one in a true position of power knows how to email.

I have heard from multiple sources that President Trump is putting in an emergency FedEx Office order to make visual aids for tonight’s Oval Office address explaining the difference between pedophilia and ephebophilia.

Yeah, I hear ya, but Cameron can do what he wants and everyone will say "yes, sir!" We're also in a world of ancillary products now -- AMC popcorn buckets & such -- more shit to sell. Intermission = Intermi$$ion

They say the new AVATAR is 3hr 15min. Historically there have been many shorter films with an intermission. A movie that long needs an intermission. Maybe Na'vi can go that long without taking a whizz, but I can not. Theaters make more $ on popcorn sales, too. Cameron is being a putz. Am I wrong?

I better launch another podcast about a minimally popular, 50-year-old cartoon strip in order to make up for my financial losses.

It's so cold out. Yet I must leave the warmth of my home. I must retrieve today's Asbury Park Press, so I can explain today's Ziggy to @pizzaatmcds.bsky.social. This is the wisecrackin' albatross around my neck. Learn more by downloading THE DAILY ZIG wherever you download podcasts.

I want you all to know that I am wearing a leopard print Snuggie

This is cinema www.youtube.com/watch?v=mitF...

West, Texas is in East Texas

Paramount+'s local news options has introduced me to Baltimore's Marty Bass and WHERE'S MARTY? in which an alter kaker just goes to a new place each day and looks around. Can anyone from the Baltimore area fill me in with some Where's Marty lore?

This program features a cameo appearance by my mail order son Bob Woodward “Woody” Bernstein-Thompson.

The latest free-wheelin' Daily Zig features two genuinely funny comics, then what might be Tom Wilson II's most baffling works in his entire career. Zig-it-up! open.spotify.com/episode/4VZ8...

Of the 900,000 pages Robert Caro has written about LBJ, how many of them are dedicated to the Vesuvian belch he ripped out over the phone when ordering slacks.

The latest free-wheelin' Daily Zig features two genuinely funny comics, then what might be Tom Wilson II's most baffling works in his entire career. Zig-it-up! open.spotify.com/episode/4VZ8...

A story in three acts.

This one is pretty funny

The McRib is 44 years old this month. People's opinion on this pork sandwich from McDonald's may vary, but its history is a fun mix of food science, resource scarcity, and commerce. It was a fun subject to write about. www.retroist.com/p/the-histor...

I've been happy to see all the Meg White reconsideration, in conjunction with The White Stripes entering the RnR HoF. The very first "For Our Consideration" column in The AV Club, back in 2011, was inspired by Meg and Jack dissolving their creative partnership. www.avclub.com/why-meg-whit...

I just ate rice pudding!

Hoffman on Frankenstein for Foreign Policy mag. foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/07/d...

“Some guys flip tires at CrossFit; Cameron makes Avatar movies”

Khruangbin has a released a cover album … of themselves. The house is currently quaking to THE UNIVERSE SMILES UPON YOU ii Check this out if you like the original - it’s a great expansion.

The newest DAILY ZIG podcast touches a bit on New York politics, UFOs and Charlie Kaufman podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I (re)watched KNIGHT OF CUPS on Amazon this evening. I recently stopped paying extra to remove ads on that service. Let me tell you, T. Malick’s exquisite tone poems really lend themselves nicely to randomly placed messages from FanDuel.

"‘Advice for Men’ is a collection of painfully honest self-help personal essays about masculinity, mental health, and pop culture written for men or anyone who has ever met, or seen, a man, far away, in the distance." johndevore.substack.com/p/advice-for...

May I please have your attention? I have a short story in the latest issue of the fine literary journal The Raleigh Review. It is about an accident-prone small town Louisiana sheriff’s deputy. You may purchase the issue from your favorite local bookseller or here: raleighreview.org/print-issues...

I will be in conversation with Maciej Drygas after a screening of his award winning film TRAINS Pociągi / Trains/ Drygas Film Production Tribeca Screening Room 375 Greenwich Street #2, NYC Saturday 8 November- 3:00pm FREE reserve tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/trains-by-...

Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe: An Evening of Yes Music Plus, Sept 1989, Shoreline Amphitheater, my first Pay-Per-View concert. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSU6...

The Secret Agent, dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho (2025)

Career highlight! This summer I went to Fraunces Tavern with Ken Burns to talk about American history. That interview is now live at @vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

The newest DAILY ZIG podcast touches a bit on New York politics, UFOs and Charlie Kaufman podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Laying in bed close to 1 AM reading the Old Farmer’s Almanac.

"'Stranger Things' Fruit by the Foot" is dangerously close to "Strange Fruit"

Career highlight! This summer I went to Fraunces Tavern with Ken Burns to talk about American history. That interview is now live at @vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

Zohran has a big road ahead of him with many obstacles, but this old video suggests he may have already faced down folks like the NYC Movie Guru and Scott 'Movie' Mantz! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u_6...

It is shocking the degree to which Cuomo is a putz. Whatever happens to you this week — whatever stupid thing you do or say, you can at least think "well, I am not Cuomo!" He has given us this gift.

Jack Ciattarelli has now run for Gov of N.J. three (3) times and lost every time. I have a better record than he does. You have a better record than he does. In the race for biggest loser in politics right now, don't count Jack out in his challenge against Cuomo!

What a picture

Now, more than ever!!!

Damn right we did! We had one ballot question in Monmouth County - whether to spend a few extra shekels to make the parks even greater than they already are. Glad to see my neighbors didn’t go all Scrooge on this one.

What do you think is Zohran’s favorite Phish jam?

Hoffman did his part!

If you are near the Jersey Shore and want to see Richard Thompson tonight in Red Bank, I just put 2 great tix up for super extra cheap on StubHub. I have a bit of a wee emergency right now (all will be well in the end??????) so can't go. Show's at 730pm.